Dr. Mackenbach is an epidemiologist and associate professor at Amsterdam UMC. She specializes in research about the food environment and the wider economic and political systems shaping them. Dr. Mackenbach obtained her PhD (cum laude) in 2016 with a thesis on ‘obesogenic environments’ and is currently involved in several national and international projects on how (changes in) food environments contribute to diet-related chronic diseases and health inequalities.
Dr. Mackenbach is supervisor of two PhD students in Exposome-NL who use Agent-Based Modelling to study the effects of food policies on food behaviors, health outcomes and health inequalities.
Taymara C Abreu, Joreintje D Mackenbach, Joline WJ Beulens, Ilonca Vaartjes, Ichiro Kawachi
SSM - Population Health (2024)
Maria Gabriela M. Pinho, Yvonne Koop, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Jeroen Lakerveld, Mariana Simões, Roel Vermeulen, Alfred J. Wagtendonk, Ilonca Vaartjes and Joline W. J. Beulens
BMC Medicine (2024)
Taymara C Abreu, Joline WJ Beulens, Fleur Heuvelman, Linda J Schoonmade, Joreintje D Mackenbach
BMJ open (2024)
Taymara C Abreu, Joline WJ Beulens, Fleur Heuvelman, Linda J Schoonmade, Joreintje D Mackenbach
SSM-population Health (2024)
Noreen Z. Siddiqui, Lai Wei, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Marco Helbich, Joline W. J. Beulens
International Journal of Health Geographics volume 23, Article number: 3 (2024)
Lieke van den Brekel, Virissa Lenters, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Gerard Hoek, Alfred Wagtendonk, Jeroen Lakerveld, Diederick E. Grobbee, Ilonca Vaartjes
The Lancet Planetary Health (2024)
Taymara C. Abreu, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Fleur Heuvelman, Linda J. Schoonmade, Joline W.J. Beulens
SSM - Population Health
Lai Wei, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Maartje P. Poelman, Roel Vermeulen, Marco Helbich
Health & Place, 2023, 83
Pinho MGM, Lakerveld J, Harbers MC, Sluijs I, Vermeulen R, Huss A, Boer JMA, Verschuren WMM, Brug J, Beulens JWJ, Mackenbach JD.
European Journal of Nutrition. 60 (2021).
Amsterdam University Medical Centrer
Location VUmc
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
De Boelelaan 1089a, 1081 HV Amsterdam
0031 20 4448198
The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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